That's pretty horrible. By the way... did anyone else catch what the whole thing was over in the first place? If you're curious, go to 1:53 and listen to the next words out of his mouth, "She told you to take that fan off of your computer." A noisy computer fan. Wonder what would have happened if she'd actually done something that... I dunno... warranted punishment?

I've seen complicity and they normally do not engage or help in the beating. I'll take it back when more comes out. He is the primary asshole, but I have seen people excuse things when both are equally at fault.

The daughter has made the point that the woman's just as much of a victim of abuse and that was why she was complicit in the beating.

I call bullshit on this line of reasoning. There was nothing physically preventing the mother from leaving this bastard, buying a gun, and making him stay the hell away from her and her daughter. The fact that she choose to stay and put them both through more abuse makes her just as guilty as the father.

As a victim of similar albeit less harsh domestic violence myself, I judge mothers that stay in these kinds of situation rather harshly. Often, they are the only ones with any real power to change things for the better. By choosing to allow the abuse to continue, they are doing psychological harm of their own to their child.

I think he should be sent to prison for this, but not here in the US where maybe he would get special protection from the guards. Send him to a Mexican prison.